[Xastir] Xlib Error

[Curt, WE7U]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, kc7zru wrote:

> CPU goes %100 - top shows xastir at %98+ - I walk away for a bit (coffee
> ya know), come back after a minute or so and find xastir shut down, back
> to console no topo snapshot in ~/.xastir/tmp/logs and this at the console:
>
> Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0xe0e16f1)!
> X Error of failed request:  BadLength (poly request too large or
> internal Xlib length error)
> ~  Major opcode of failed request:  15 (X_QueryTree)
> ~  Serial number of failed request:  235804402
> ~  Current serial number in output stream:  235804401
>
> Gremlins or a bug? FWIW

I suspect it's a bug in the XPM library.  There were changes to the
XPM library recently to fix some security-related bugs.  They may
have introduced some new bugs in the process.  You might check to
see if there's a newer version of the XPM library available for your
system.

We make exactly one call to the XPM library to have it create an XPM
from one of our pixmaps, and write it to a disk file.  It's line
3041 of maps.c.  The equivalent section for printing is at line 2122
of the same file.

--
Curt, WE7U.   APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
"Lotto:    A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown
"Windows:  Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U
"The world DOES revolve around me:  I picked the coordinate system!"